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OCEAN YACHT RACE.
The Coronet Reaches Queenstown
Ahead Of the Dauntless.

The Coronet Reaches Queenstown
Ahead Of the Dauntless.
The great ocean yacht race for sweep
stakes OF $4,000, which began on March II
from New York was finished at noon Of
March 81 In Queenstown Harbor. The Coro-
net crossed the line Off Roche's Point
at 12:l p. NJ. making the passage in fourteen
days, nineteen hours and three minutes actu-
al time.
The officers of the Royal Yacht Club of Cork
had been waiting outside Of the harbor for
the winner. The wind was blowing hard and
the stately schooner, with full spread
of sail, stood proudly on to the crossing
line firing her five guns and showing
her signals of triumph. To all appearances
she had passed uninjured through the terrible
gales which just now swept the North ATTAIN
tic. No lives had been lost, no seamen had
been injured. A cable despatch says:
Seven heavy gales threw the sea into coa-
dtion Of fearful disturbance for eleven days
of the trip, and for two days the weather was
so severe as to make the question of the yachts
surviving it somewhat doubtful. The voyage
has covered Capt Crosby with glory. BE
freely expressed his fears of the stin
of the veteran Capt. samuels, of the Daunt-
less, for he himself had never before sailed in
yacht race Of any kind. To-day he can
take his place as one Of the first yacht sailors
in the world, for he has brought the Coronet
through a series of gales which would have.
sent many big ship down to the bottom.
And all honor is due to the schooner herself
Her behavior in all kinds of weather was mag
nificent, and she is unquestionably one Of The
staunchest, if not the fastest, yachts afloat.,
Happily there was no accidents on the voyage.
The sailors have come into port all well, sound
il, limb nd hoo Ixy ho
understood that they had,to take tremendous
risks. Three sails were torn, and here and
there some tackle was broken, but otherwise
the schooner and her company are in as good
condition to-day as they were on the day OF
their departure through the Narrows.
The apparent time occupied in the voyage
sSosds was Il days % hours s. minutes and ae
measured by Greenwich meridian time, was
seconds. The total distance Travelled by:
the schooner was 2,940 miles The
vessels speed was excellent, In
fact surprising, at all times when any pro-
gress could be made at all Her largest days
run was made Saturday, when she covered
29l.5 miles, beating by 20.5 miles the best
days run made in the great race Of the Hen
rietta, Fleetwing and Vesta. Her smallest
run, 1873 miles made on Tuesday last, speaks
volumes fox the terrific condition Of the
weather.
The yacht Dauntless reached Queenstown.
on the day after the Coronets arrival, at $40
P. M. Her actual time on the passage was
sixteen days, one hour. forty three minutes,
and thirteen seconds She was met Off Roche's.
Point by large feeto steam yachts and craft
of all descriptions, and her reception was as
hearty as if she had been the victor. Her
perfect condition speaks volumes for the
splendid seamanship of Captain Samuels, and
he is regarded as hero of the deep. Consid-
ering the discrepancy in the size Of the yachts
and the terrible nature Of the weather the
Dauntless is considered to have done quite as:
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